Kinny read from his teleprompter. ?Thank you.? As if he neededprompts to thank someone. But he did notice an inflection in Cookie?svoice that he hadn?...t put there. Had he?Drake asked, ?Mind if I sit with you??Kinny shrugged. His avatar shrugged with him, but she made it looksexy. She whispered in Kinny?s ear in Private Chat mode, ?When youget a VR suit, I?ll teach you how to do this properly. I?ll alsopunch you in the shoulder when you don?t get it right.?Drake said, ?Are you here for the girls. It had taken forever to talk Charline into stripping down and enjoy the sun, and I had thought once Charlie had gotten a good look at those perfect milk white globes bouncing in the sun, he'd be unable to resist her and they'd run into each other's arms, or something suitably romantic like that. Both of the idiots still had a little too much central reserve and shyness. I should have locked them up alone in my new motel room and come back three or four hours later. They obviously wanted each. I imagined the beer was having an effect on her.After talking and drinking the remaining bottles of beer in the fridge while listening to music from my work radio for another hour, I told her I had to lay down for a bit, as I was somewhat buzzed now. Madison grabbed my hand and showed me to her bedroom upstairs. I sat on the edge of her bed as she went to the bathroom. I didn’t know what to make of all this, so with a little anticipation I got undressed and got into her bed.A short time later. To get her mind off of how bad she should feelabout herself Mia went to her bookshelf. The trip to get a book to readto take a mental vacation from feeling bad became a delay. The first bookshe noticed was a reminder of both Joe and Jules.The hardback single-volume edition of the Lord of The Rings which caughther eye made her think of both Jules and Joe. The book was Jules' and helet her borrow the tome because of Joe's love of the book. Mia wanted tobetter understand the book so she could be.